Report of AAPM Therapy Physics Committee Task Group 74: In-air output ratio, Sc, for megavoltage photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5261-5291

  Zhu, Timothy C ^a   Ahnesjö, Anders ^b,c   Lam, Kwok Leung ^d   Li, X Allen ^e   Ma, Chang Ming Charlie ^f   Palta, Jatinder R ^g   Sharpe, Michael B ^h   Thomadsen, Bruce ⁱ   Tailor, Ramesh C ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Elekta AB   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^h PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Energy fluence; Extra focal source; Headscatter; In air output ratio; Megavoltage photon; Miniphantom; MU calculation; Output factor

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ENERGY FLUENCES; EXTRA FOCAL SOURCE; HEADSCATTER; MEGAVOLTAGE PHOTONS; MINIPHANTOM; OUTPUT FACTORS;

PHOTONS;

ALGORITHM; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; EMPIRICISM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SPECTRUM;

EID: 70449397126     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3227367     Document Type: Review

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